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Yes, the omissions from the "transcript" matter.

The nixing of details about Trump's focus on Biden will make it harder to claim Trump only cared about "corruption."

And it will make Rs more worried that they don't know what's still to come.

New piece:

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Here's my question.

Given that Trump used the WH meeting to leverage the investigations he wanted, why would he suddenly *not* intend the frozen military aid to accomplish the same thing, at the very moment he was *maximizing* his leverage over Zelensky?

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Trump is now explicitly demanding that Rs fully defend his corrupt pressure on Ukraine, as opposed to just attacking Dems/process.

The "transcript" is central to this: Trump wants Rs to say, "read the transcript!" just as he is.

That's much harder now.

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